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On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 1:27 PM Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote: |
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> That would require us to constantly keep track if the entity listed in |
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> the notice is still the main copyright holder, and I cannot predict how |
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> much burden this would be for future maintenance. |
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Note that the intent here (for my part) was not to strictly monitor |
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this. If somebody points out "hey, you have the wrong name here" then |
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it can be fixed like any other bug. There really are no negative |
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legal consequences that I'm aware of if you don't have the largest |
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single copyright holder listed. |
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As far as I can tell the Linux kernel makes no effort at all to |
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maintain their copyright notices. If a file says "Copyright 1982 IBM" |
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and the entire file gets rewritten 14 times so not even a single word |
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of the original remains, chances are it says "Copyright 2018 IBM." I |
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imagine nobody cares enough to try to stay on top of this, because not |
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listing your name in no way waives any of your rights to the file. |
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Rich |
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